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The price of bitcoin temporarily exceeded the mark of $10,000, but the cryptocurrency was not able to maintain that achievement. However, according to some estimates, the price of bitcoin may exceed $100,000 within a year.

Rosseti, the largest Russian energy company, claimed damage from illegal mining in the amount of 450 billion rubles within the last three years. 35 cases of theft of electricity for cryptocurrency mining were revealed.

The former head of the Russian Post branch in the southern city of Mineralnye Vody was suspected of illegal cryptocurrency mining using working equipment. The damage caused is estimated at 30,000 rubles ($400).

Chinese authorities plan to launch the state digital currency ahead of schedule to stimulate the economy amid toughening confrontation with the United States due to the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 in the world.

Russian State Duma parliamentarians proposed imprisonment for up to seven years for cryptocurrency turnover. At the same time, they call for legalization of blockchain projects tokens considered as unregistered securities in many countries.

Over the past day, the total share of three mining pools, F2Pool, AntPool, BTC.com, exceeded 50% of the bitcoin hashrate. Such a redistribution of forces threatens to reduce the level of decentralization in the network.